News Technology Deal marks first significant delay of digital rules amid pressure from the U.S. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrives for the weekly meeting of the German cabinet at the chancellery in Berlin on May 6, 2026. | Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images Restrictions on high-risk uses of artificial intelligence in the EU will be postponed by more than a year under a deal agreed by EU legislators on Thursday morning. The plan to delay a key part of the bloc’s flagship AI law received su...